Alexander Hamilton
Founding Father, Treasury
Sayings by Alexander Hamilton
The United States should be a great manufacturing as well as a great agricultural country.
The acquisition of wealth, property, and reputation, is the engine of all industry and enterprise.
It is a truth, which has been taught by the experience of all ages, that the people are too apt to be led astray by the arts of popular demagogues.
The public good is the sole object of government.
The greatest danger to the United States, is from the disunion of the States.
The people are too apt to be led astray by the arts of popular demagogues.
The necessity of a vigorous, energetic government is not a new doctrine.
The true danger to America is the spirit of faction and disunion.
The power of the purse should be in the hands of the national government.
It is a principle of liberty that the people have a right to choose the form of government under which they will live.
The only security against faction and insurrection, is in a firm, energetic government.
The accumulation of debt is the natural disease of all governments.
The idea of an independent executive is a dangerous one.
I am not for a government that is so strong as to be dangerous to liberty.
The safety of the people is the supreme law.
A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.
It is of great importance that the people should be informed of the true state of their affairs.
I have been in this country a little too long to be deceived by the cry of liberty.
Take away from a man his good name, and you take away his identity.